EngineYard Goes Upmarket with its Ruby PaaS
Just the other day Krish posted about the new partnership between Apigee and Heroku the Ruby PaaS player. Hot on the heels of that announcement comes news that EngineYard are partnering with TerreMark to provide a more enterprise class Ruby PaaS. First some background – EngineYard already has AppCloud, a mid level Ruby PaaS offering [...]
Apigee And Heroku Partner To Make App Development A Child’s Play
Apigee , the free API tools platform from Sonoa Systems (See our previous coverage of Apigee here and here), today partnered with Heroku, the Ruby PaaS provider (See our previous coverage of Heroku here and here ), to offer an easy access to Twitter platform. Apigee has been providing API tools for developers with focus [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Northscale Wants To Help Extend Platform Services
This is the 4th post in the PaaS is the future of Cloud Services Series. In this post, I am going to talk about the importance of extensibility of any platform and highlight one of the vendors in the space, Northscale. Yesterday Northscale announced a Series B funding worth $10M led by Mayfield Fund. Series A [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of The Cloud Services: Heroku Is Ready To Be There
Image via CrunchBase This is the third post in the PaaS is the future of cloud services series but a long overdue one. The focus of the series is to highlight the fact that PaaS, not IaaS, is going to play an important role in the future of cloud services because of the value it [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services Series
Image via Wikipedia There is an overwhelming view among the pundits that PaaS is the future of cloud services and IaaS will slowly go into the background. In fact, in my opinion, PaaS is the idea of cloud computing that comes closer to the utility comparison made by Nick Carr in his book “The Big [...]
PaaS, Trusting Beyond Its Initial Hype
Image via Wikipedia Friday, I wrote about the shutdown of PaaS vendor, Coghead, and wondered how one can minimize the risks involved with such scenarios. Unless we figure out a way to minimize such risks, it will be impossible to convince enterprise customers to trust their applications on top of PaaS. Let us take a detour and check out some of the players [...]
